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Boston’s 10 most outlandish historical moments

Fact is stranger than fiction! Enjoy these odd (but true!) landmark events in Boston's history: No. 1: Fenway's red seat

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No. 8: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

OK, he wasn't exactly from Boston, but John Adams (along with his second-cousin Samuel Adams) was among the most famous denizens of the city during and after the American Revolution. John, born in a part of Braintree that is now Quincy, was among the Founding Fathers who rose

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War, what is it good for? Sometimes, absolutely everything

After the Battle at North Bridge in Concord, while the British retreated and began their march back to Boston, some Massachusetts men found a wounded redcoat left behind. They did a terrible thing: They scalped him and left him to die. Word about the atrocity reached the British, and along

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Religious freedom resource planned by Becket Fund

WASHINGTON – Each year, a presidential proclamation declares Jan. 16 a Religious Freedom Day, honoring a Virginia law written by Thomas Jefferson in 1786. The measure formed the basis for the religious freedom provision in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. To commemorate the 230th anniversary of the "

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Attacking our founders

Many of my columns speak highly of the wisdom of our nation's founders. Every once in a while, I receive an ugly letter sarcastically asking what do I think of their wisdom declaring blacks "three-fifths of a human." It's difficult to tell whether such

Independent Women's Forum

Don’t look now, New England, but political correctness can bite you, too

When Thomas Jefferson's original tombstone, a granite obelisk that was given to the University of Missouri in 1885, was slated for restoration a scant three years ago, the university could not have been prouder of owning such an important artifact of a Founding Father. Indeed, seizing upon the

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Nation awash in debt

A couple of recent reports illustrate just how dire the United States federal government's debt situation really is. The federal government took in a record $2.9 trillion in tax revenues for the first 11 months of the fiscal year (through the end of August), up about 7.